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Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office

Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

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Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea

Good Job Mr. Trump...
For now, Gold will Bearish...
I remember and have much Losses on Gold Trade when North Korea made a Nuclear Test.. The Nuclear Test made Gold Fly/ Bullish Like a Rocket Line...
But for know, You was fixed The North Korea threat and made Gold Weaker Below on 1300...

{quote} I'm also struggling to see the logic of scrapping an existing nuclear deal with Iran while pursuing a non-deal with North Korea. But hey I guess in lala-land Trump world this somehow makes sense.

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There are a lot to be said, but in a nutshell Iran deal is not 100% verifiable (because Iran refused to let inspector into their military facility) and totally not irreversible. Iran deal is only a FREEZE on their nuclear program which has an expiry date. When it expired, you have to renegotiate or Iran will continue. It is not denuclearization that Trump has wanted. Iran never promise to denuclearize. Iran only say they will suspend their nuclear program under the agreement. Trump said, this is not good enough. Trump's agenda is denuclearization (supposedly CVID) and he cancel the existing deal so that Iran can be forced to negotiated a total new CVID denuclearization deal. Hope this make some sense.

As to the complaint that US has not honored the Iran deal and cannot be trusted. It is not the case. Iran deal has not been totally ratified and accepted by Congress. Congress stipulated a periodic review and will decide at each review on the validity of the deal. Rather it is more accurate to say that the current president did not honored the deal agreed upon by past president and not the case that US did not honor the deal because Congress has never approved it in full anyway.

As to the issue that current president changing previous president's policy and agreement, I guess this happens in all the other nations all the time. Unless the policy and agreement is passed into law by the nation's law making body, then it will be binding at the state level and any president wanting to change any deal has to go through the appropriate legal process to unwind it.

Therefore probably any security guarantee that Trump will give to Kim will be one that will be fully approved by Congress so that future president cannot cancel it at will without Congress approval. This is probably central consideration to satisfy and put Kim at ease that a future president cannot anyhow cancel a deal promised by Trump as claimed and suggested by Iran at the moment to foil Trump attempt to strike a deal with N Korea.

Iran deal: Agreed not to weaponise, not denuclearize. Uranium enrichment done at third party sites to ensure it's not refined into weapon grade plutonium. Halting development of nuclear weapons for 15 years.

North Korea deal: Agreed to freeze joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises in exchange for a continued freeze on North Korean nuclear and missile testing, accompanied by no North Korean commitment to freeze further development of its nuclear and missile programs. North Korea keeps existing weapons but dismantle test sites.
(Superfluous, as they likely have all the data they needed.)

Coming from the US side, why the hell would Trump trade the first for the second?

Iran deal: Agreed not to weaponise, not denuclearize. Uranium enrichment done at third party sites to ensure it's not refined into weapon grade plutonium. Halting development of nuclear weapons for 15 years. North Korea deal: Agreed to freeze joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises in exchange for a continued freeze on North Korean nuclear and missile testing, accompanied by no North Korean commitment to freeze further development of its nuclear and missile programs. North Korea keeps existing weapons but dismantle test sites. (They likely...

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The N Korea deal has not even began. There is no basis to compare. The current agreement signed is just a declaration and is symbolic only binding in honor. Any deal make with NK has to include VERY VERY specific details (very importantly satisfying CVID) which form the basis for Congress approval. So, wait for more and more detail to be worked out with N Korea. It is only the first beginning step in a long process to denuclearization.

Trump is not so stupid to let Congress tear him apart with a deal that is inferior to Iran's deal. The world would have laughed at him. Pompeo and Bolton would have forbidden and resign straight away. The current people who are mocking him at the moment just don't understand the detail process that is taking place in the background.

{quote} The N Korea deal has not even began. There is no basis to compare. The current agreement signed is just a declaration and is symbolic only binding in honor. Any deal make with NK has to include VERY VERY specific details (very importantly satisfying CVID) which form the basis for Congress approval. So, wait for more and more detail to be worked out with N Korea. It is only the first beginning step in a long process to denuclearization. Trump is not so stupid to let Congress tear him apart with a deal that is inferior to Iran's deal. The...

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Ok keep waiting then.

North Korea conditions for giving up its nuclear weapons had always been for the complete withdrawal of US troops in the surrounding area. It'll be great if Trump actually agreed to comply.

Oh and the irony of you bemoaning a future president ripping up Trump's nuclear deal is not lost on you I see lol.

{quote} Ok keep waiting then. North Korea conditions for giving up its nuclear weapons had always been for the complete withdrawal of US troops in the surrounding area. It'll be great if Trump actually agreed to comply. Oh and the irony of you bemoaning a future president ripping up Trump's nuclear deal is not lost on you I see lol.

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N Korea actually want US troops to stay (because this is not a demand on their list). But they don't mind that US reduce the number. What N Korea want is complete denuclearization of Korea Peninsula and not just NK alone. This mean they want all nuclear capable US ships, missile defence system and bombers out of Korean peninsula, theirs as well as US. But conventional troops, they have no objection because US put it across to them that it is part of ally pact with SK and US will be transparent about it (one of the item on US list).

Go google the demand list for NK and US. There are some public info (not sure whether these are fake news) that list out 5 items from NK side and 5 items from US side. Very interesting and one of the item on NK demand list pertaining to economic investment is actually to secure US close engagement with NK to balance China's side of influence. Specifically they want US to match 50-50 equal share of investment to China's eventually apparently wanting US to counter-balance China as part of the security guarantee that US has promised to protect Kim's regime. Having US troop stationed nearby is actually in the interest of Kim's regime since and if they are satisfy and trust that US will be providing complete, verificable and irreversible security guarantee.

{quote} N Korea actually want US troops to stay (because this is not a demand on their list). But they don't mind that US reduce the number. What N Korea want is complete denuclearization of Korea Peninsula and not just NK alone. This mean they want all nuclear capable US ships, missile defence system and bombers out of Korean peninsula, theirs as well as US. But conventional troops, they have no objection because US put it across to them that it is part of ally pact with SK and US will be transparent about it (one of the item on US list). Go google...

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Well you watch these Guys take poor old Trumpie for a ride .

If he cant even negotiate with allies its enemies he is gonna negotiate with LOL

What poor old Trumpie doesnt get is that he is so needy to be like these guys while grabbing more marbles for himself and his family that whenever he leave the world stage it just must be worse than when he came.

"hosemaster" He doesn't measure his wealth in private jets, but purchased souls.

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Just wait for it Nick, you will find out who actually does deal in souls and who has the biggest collection very soon.. In the meantime, he,being Trump has returned the bodies of your heroes to their home country after 50 years.. Even that one act deserves a clap, but all you sheep hate him because Bloomy told you to hate him and god forbid you think for yourself.

Just think on this for one hour in a quite place.. The Federal Reserve bank dictates your economy, for every $1 you print you pay a private bank up to $4 in interest. The Federal Reserve Bank was put in place as a temporary measure, that was in 1913... But here is the alarming thing, they run your country, they were never elected and have NEVER been audited. And here you sit complaining about Trump, your country is owned by a private bank. Hell I will take the queen of England any day over that mess, maybe another civil war is needed..

Oh and why did I bring that ^ up.. Because Trump is trying to get the FED audited, he wants to know where all the missing money has gone, where all the funds you good people pay in taxes actually goes..

{quote} Well you watch these Guys take poor old Trumpie for a ride . If he cant even negotiate with allies its enemies he is gonna negotiate with LOL What poor old Trumpie doesnt get is that he is so needy to be like these guys while grabbing more marbles for himself and his family that whenever he leave the world stage it just must be worse than when he came. http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/news...ays/index.html

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He can't negotiate with Allies??
What are you talking about?
he's just getting started, and you think it's game over?
It seems some haven't caught onto the obvious about how Trump operates.
If he sees a situation he doesn't agree with, he voices his disapproval, states his reasons, then takes more or less immediate action.
this puts the other party on the back foot, "encourages" them to take a step back and "gain a new perspective", then begin negotiating from a different position.
A book has been published about this, and for visual learners, it has been demonstrated live with China, NK, Iran,Canada and the EU...

{quote} Just wait for it Nick, you will find out who actually does deal in souls and who has the biggest collection very soon.. In the meantime, he,being Trump has returned the bodies of your heroes to their home country after 50 years.. Even that one act deserves a clap, but all you sheep hate him because Bloomy told you to hate him and god forbid you think for yourself. Just think on this for one hour in a quite place.. The Federal Reserve bank dictates your economy, for every $1 you print you pay a private bank up to $4 in interest. The Federal...

A lot of Americans don't like Trump partly because of his personality. I kind of support Trump's achievement thus far, but I would not go so far as to defend his personality. But it is because of this almost sole focus on his personality that a lot of Americans missed the trees for the forest. Trump like his ego stroked, he like to win, he like to brag, he like to use bombastic word which tends to exaggerate. And when he said that this summit is a tremendous success, we are safer today, and North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, many Americans were triggered and attacked him for what they see is a vague useless declaration signed without any details to CVID. But after I have read further into some of the analysis (by foreign analyst), I tend to come to an agreement that Trump is indeed right and is not exaggerating.

So please allow me to share the following wisdom from a Chinese analyst for the benefit of American audience who rarely read beyond their own media which is bogged down with local politics. While the American treat Trump like a fool, the analysts outside of US actually think Trump is a genius negotiator and a master of foreign politics.

The Chinese analyst viewpoint goes like this: In the first place, what are we discussing about? It is actually not about denuclearization. It is actually about the threat of North Korea, and since NK has nuclear capability, the nature of the threat is a nuclear threat. NK threat exists because they are expressedly anti-US. In their world, US is an enemy that they inherited from the past. NK threat has elevated to a point today that even military intervention are considered because of the nuclear capability that NK now possess. The main issue here is to remove NK threat, and denuclearization is only but ONE mean to doing so.

Trump through his wise and skilled way of diplomacy/threat has brought NK to the table to discuss. And in that 5 hours of meet and a simple handshake and a smile and pat on the arm, Trump has effectively remove the NK threat (without denuclearization). That manoeuvre which many see as useless photo ops has in effect de-escalate the relationship between NK and US from enemy to friendly if not otherwise neutral. (This is evident as after the summit, NK national press media has published very positive articles on the summit and improved relationship between NK and US. Gone are their old way of portraying US as a enemy but now a potential future working partner.)

Why do US has no issue with India and Pakistan having nuclear weapon? It is because India and Pakistan is not expressedly anti-US and therefore is not a threat. Possessing nuclear weapon is NOT a threat, anti-US attitude IS. And possessing nuclear weapon only just make that threat more real. Therefore, Trump has brought the relationship with NK from enemy to friendly if not otherwise neutral effectively removing the anti-US attitude in NK and effectively remove the threat. Denuclearization is important and has to be done, but that is not the main threat. Trump has scored a tremendous victory and effectively secure half of the deal with that summit by removing NK nuclear threat which the American has missed the trees for the forest.

A lot of Americans don't like Trump partly because of his personality. I kind of support Trump's achievement thus far, but I would not go so far as to defend his personality. But it is because of this almost sole focus on his personality that a lot of Americans missed the trees for the forest. Trump like his ego stroked, he like to win, he like to brag, he like to use bombastic word which tends to exaggerate. And when he said that this summit is a tremendous success, we are safer today, and North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, many Americans...

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Be careful Hareii, you are in danger of making sense in here.
Who would have thought turning foes into friends was a bad idea.

A lot of Americans don't like Trump partly because of his personality. I kind of support Trump's achievement thus far, but I would not go so far as to defend his personality. But it is because of this almost sole focus on his personality that a lot of Americans missed the trees for the forest. Trump like his ego stroked, he like to win, he like to brag, he like to use bombastic word which tends to exaggerate. And when he said that this summit is a tremendous success, we are safer today, and North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, many Americans...

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You are not understanding one thing.

People are not created to be divided.

Those who seek to divide will gain some temporary support from those who end up living their lives a miserable wreck...just ask those who supported the Nazi.

Trump a rich washed up semi retired dude cannot be fit to free the people. Further more he makes it clear he is incapable of working on behalf of all peoples.

You can keep burying your head in the sand but most people are able to understand that.

{quote} You are not understanding one thing. People are not created to be divided. Those who seek to divide will gain some temporary support from those who end up living their lives a miserable wreck...just ask those who supported the Nazi. Trump a rich washed up semi retired dude cannot be fit to free the people. Further more he makes it clear he is incapable of working on behalf of all peoples. You can keep burying your head in the sand but most people are able to understand that.

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what you fail to understand is just because it doesn't fit with you, that doesn't automatically make it the majority. Some proponents of ideologies (anarchism, communism, fascism, Nazism, capitalism) actively pursue the goal of establishing a form of government consistent with their political beliefs, or assert that the world is moving "naturally" towards the adoption of a particular form of government (or self), authoritarian or anti-authoritarian. These proposals are not concerned with a particular nation achieving world domination, but with all nations conforming to a particular social or economic model. A goal of world domination can be to establish a world government, a single common political authority for all of humanity. This is evilness and I'll have no part.

I always find it humorous how conformists and sycophants from non-US countries decidedly understand the freedom in the US as if they were living it. LOL Nonetheless, mods, can we stop the whiners? Some of us have work to do. The market doesn't care who the president is.

{quote} what you fail to understand is just because it doesn't fit with you, that doesn't automatically make it the majority. Some proponents of ideologies (anarchism, communism, fascism, Nazism, capitalism) actively pursue the goal of establishing a form of government consistent with their political beliefs, or assert that the world is moving "naturally" towards the adoption of a particular form of government (or self), authoritarian or anti-authoritarian. These proposals are not concerned with a particular nation achieving world domination,...

Some of us have work to do. The market doesn't care who the president is.

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????? You sure about the above statement? Which market are you referring to?

But I do agree on the point that discussion has to be relevant to FX trading since this is a FX trading platform. However, if the mod deemed fit to place this "news articles" within here, they have formed the opinion that it is related and relevant to FX trading. Any following discussion related to the subject matter will also carry the same weight of relevancy. It may appear irrelevant to technical trading perspective but it does not mean it is irrelevant to trading. Why is Bloomberg covering politics if it is irrelevant and when it is primarily focused on financial and trading?

The only way to stop all this discussion is to first not place this type of "news articles" here. If it is here, it means we will be free to discuss. Mods will have to make the appropriate call at the upstream.

{quote} ????? You sure about the above statement? Which market are you referring to? But I do agree on the point that discussion has to be relevant to FX trading since this is a FX trading platform. However, if the mod deemed fit to place this "news articles" within here, they have formed the opinion that it is related and relevant to FX trading. Any following discussion related to the subject matter will also carry the same weight of relevancy. It may appear irrelevant to technical trading perspective but it does not mean it is irrelevant...

{quote} ????? You sure about the above statement? Which market are you referring to? But I do agree on the point that discussion has to be relevant to FX trading since this is a FX trading platform. However, if the mod deemed fit to place this "news articles" within here, they have formed the opinion that it is related and relevant to FX trading. Any following discussion related to the subject matter will also carry the same weight of relevancy. It may appear irrelevant to technical trading perspective but it does not mean it is irrelevant...

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People are always choosing whether they can trust themselves to have a public discussion in a responsible, controlled and civilized way. Meaning without personal attacks and disparaging remarks. In short people must learn and grow.

not as long as Trumps in office...I'm getting what I voted for f... globalization... america/Americans worked their ass off for what they got let everyone else go lacking or work to obtain so you can gain wealth and a sense of accomplishment.

{quote} not as long as Trumps in office...I'm getting what I voted for f... globalization... america/Americans worked their ass off for what they got let everyone else go lacking or work to obtain so you can gain wealth and a sense of accomplishment.

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I hope you get everything you desire. Oh and after you finish the Mexican border wall please build one on the Canadian side as well. Were to polite to do it.

{quote} ????? You sure about the above statement? Which market are you referring to? But I do agree on the point that discussion has to be relevant to FX trading since this is a FX trading platform. However, if the mod deemed fit to place this "news articles" within here, they have formed the opinion that it is related and relevant to FX trading. Any following discussion related to the subject matter will also carry the same weight of relevancy. It may appear irrelevant to technical trading perspective but it does not mean it is irrelevant...

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Why are you arguing with me? I'm not complaining about the news article. I'm complaining about the useless bickering for which you have now continued for no reason.

I always find it humorous how conformists and sycophants from non-US countries decidedly understand the freedom in the US as if they were living it. LOL Nonetheless, mods, can we stop the whiners? Some of us have work to do. The market doesn't care who the president is.

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Freedom.. ha Please, please watch this (warning it contains swearing because in the true land of the free we can swear)